Great performance by Max Hubacher in the lead role. Maybe that's the effectiveness of the film: by the time you reach the critical moments you've become desensitised to all the killing, anarchy and atrocities. Everything just seems to happen, sometimes as if in slow motion. It could also have been more powerful: despite the events portrayed it really didn't feel that gritty or shocking. Plot is reasonably engaging, though a bit too drawn out.
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Also covers areas of WW2 that don't get much attention: the post-apocalyptic-like final days of Nazi Germany, the treatment of deserters etc and this series of events in particular. Quite novel in that it doesn't involve any confrontation with the enemy (well, except for one scene): the struggle is all internal. Interesting WW2 drama, based on a true story. Things come to a head when he is given responsibility for a camp where deserters, looters etc are detained, with dire consequences. Impersonating a captain he gathers together a rag tag group who assume the role of an anti-deserter/looter task force. The passengers panic, and one of the pilot team is taken out of action, leaving the former air force ace-turned steely nerved veteran captain Liu Chang Jian. When the windshield of his commercial airplane shatters at 30,000 feet in the air, a pilot and his flight crew work to ensure the safety of the passengers and land the plane. One deserter, Willi Herold, is on the run when he comes across the abandoned uniform of a Luftwaffe captain. WW2 in Europe is almost over, resulting in mass desertions and disorder in German ranks.
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